I love Chunky Monkey. I’m actually not a huge peanut-butter-on-its-own kind of person. I don’t ever eat peanut butter on toast. But if you throw peanut butter into a dessert, a cookie, or even oatmeal? Totally different. I also actually have never been a huge granola maker or eater. I attended a food blogging conference where I was given a bag of dark chocolate peanut butter granola in the swag bag, and I’ve just been kind of obsessed. I thought it was time I made my own, and then I started dreaming of this No Bake Reese Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Cream Pie….. and the rest is history. Lately, I’ve been swapping out my nightly plate of a dozen cookies with some low fat vanilla Greek yogurt and granola, and I love how it keeps you full longer so you don’t need to eat a dozen cookies after. And with the peanut butter and chocolate I can almost convince myself that it’s dessert granola! I have a bit of a problem with my sweet tooth. Most of the time, I can keep it under control but in November and December the urge to bake (or no bake) all the treats just takes over and I’ve got no self-control (maybe you noticed this Turtle Cheesecake or this Overnight Chocolate Cherry French Toast..) and I’m currently suffering from a bad case of Blog Booty. So the New Year (yes I know it’s cliche!) is all up getting my act together and eating more healthy snacks instead of going straight for the cookie jar. Mostly I just love having an excuse to call chocolate chips part of a healthy snack 😉 Since I’m not an expert on granola, I went looking for some inspiration to use as a guide. I adapted this Chunky Monkey Granola recipe from this recipe from Cooking Classy and this recipe from Kristine’s Kitchen.
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